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Tanairí

1985 Puerto Rican telenovela

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ16637731 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tanairí is a 1985 telenovela produced in Puerto Rico with a plot regarding slavery on the island while under Spanish rule. Tanairí, the setting for the series, is the name of the hacienda where the story takes place. The series theme song "Soledad" was performed by Nydia Caro. One of the directors of Tanairi was the well known playwright, Dean Zayas.

Cast

Juan Ferrara ... Gustavo Medina

Von Marie Mendez ... Soledad Arizmendi

Rolando Barral ... Florencio Arizmendi, Soledad's father

Raúl Reyes León ... young Gustavo Medina

Von Marie Freyre ... young Soledad Arizmendi

Braulio Castillo, Jr. ...

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“Tanairí” enters the record as 1985 Puerto Rican telenovela. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tanairí, Puerto and Rican can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1985—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tanairí, Puerto and Rican.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tanairí” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.